CIAIAC vocal members are meeting right now and will decide on the publication of the current preliminary report draft, likely later today.
It will presumably include indications from the CVR that the pilots did (try to) follow the checklist. Although the audio is particularly bad and it can not always be 100% conclusive, it is believed they did go over the flaps/slats items and said they were "ok".
Obviously they weren't reading the indicators properly, as the FDR and other evidence shows the flaps weren't extended at that time or later.
It will still point out to a failure of the SOP to require testing TOWS on each flight as the main point that must be changed to improve safety. Other operator's SOPs don't include this recommendation either, so it's important that it's made mandatory worldwide. Needless to say, Spanair has already changed the SOP a few days after the accident.
Being a preliminary report it can not include final conclusions or recommendations.
Last edited by justme69; 8th Oct 2008 at 13:26.